The Hallidays Team share their views on all the latest news and gossip in IT and technology.
Recent studies have shown that in 2022, there was a 40% drop in the monitored revenue from ransomware attacks from 2021. Whilst these figures are not guaranteed, as large amount of the criminal revenue cannot be monitored, it is widely agreed by experts the amount of ransom money collected has fallen. We can however only [...]
Recently, Royal mail have been hit with a catastrophic Cyber Attack. This has caused the postal service to be unable to offer international export services from many Post Office Branches. Currently, this service has been unavailable for the last week and Royal Mail has not provided a date that they intend for this to be [...]
14 Schools located across the UK have suffered a Cyber Attack, resulting in the public availability of student and staff records, including SEN data, passport scans and staff contracts. The attackers gained access to the file systems and were able to search through the folder structures to find the folders that were marked with sensitive [...]
As of January 10th Microsoft will stop support for Windows 8.1. From this date, technical assistance from Microsoft and software updates will no longer be provided. Support for the Edge browser on Windows 8.1 is also being cut. This means that the web browser will no longer receive feature or security updates. Any PC that [...]
With 88% of all UK adults owning a smartphone in 2022, the appeal of smartphones as a target for Cyber Attackers is huge. As the vast majority of the adult population own and use a smartphone this subsequently means that the services accessible via these devices are increasing daily. This makes it the ideal target [...]
